trustingness
7.4
Willingness to believe that other people are honest and reliable
- noun
- /ˈtrʌstɪŋnəs/
:
confianza
- Her trustingness towards her friends made her an easy target for manipulation.
Examples
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Trustingness is next to godliness.
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Though he had faced betrayal before, his trustingness allowed him to make new friends easily.
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In a world full of deceit, her trustingness shone like a beacon of hope.
Synonyms
faith
vstrustingness
∞
1.4
Complete trust in a person, plan, or thing
is a general willingness to believe rather than complete certainty
trust
vstrustingness
699
1.0
Strong belief that a person or thing is honest and reliable
is a general willingness to believe others rather than a firm belief
confidence
vstrustingness
419
1.9
A belief that you can rely on someone or something
is a stable willingness to believe others rather than a temporary feeling
gullibility
vstrustingness
5
7.7
Believing things too easily and getting tricked
is a moderate willingness to believe others rather than believing too readily
trustfulness
vstrustingness
4.8
Being ready to believe people are honest or reliable
is the same disposition but expressed with a different noun form
Antonyms
How Trusting
Surface Forms
trustingness singular
trustingnesses plural
Morphology
Etymology
Trustingness comes from an old Norse word meaning 'help' or 'confidence' and is built from trust + -ness, the same root you see in trustworthy. So, trustingness is the quality of being ready to believe others and to think they are honest.